Tweeting

To tweet a simple status update:

tweebot --keys {twitter-key-file} tweet "Hello world, this is my Tweebot status update!" -vv

You can control verbosity with the number of vs.

More command-line options are possible, try --help to see them all.

If you use - for the tweet text, the application will use standard input, which can be handy for piping info from your bots – ie, use an arbitrary application to pipe to tweebot which can tweet it out.

Following

To automatically follow new followers, and unfollow unfollowers:

tweebot --keys {twitter-key-file} follow --auto

tweebot.main

If you provide a callable to tweebot.main, then tweebot will use it as a callback when the main function is called. The main method implements all the command-line tweebot arguments, the difference is that if the program is asked to tweet an empty status, it will instead tweet the results of your method, called with no arguments. If you tweet a non-empty status, that string will be handed to your method, and the result will be tweeted:

mytweebot --keys {twitter-key-file} tweet -vv

Thus, this provides a simple way to define new twitter-bots: define a method of the form:

def my_tweet_builder(status, directives):
    new_status = do_something()
    return new_status
    # or
    return new_status, new_directives

This can either ignore the status it’s given, or use it in any way you wish. If you have multiple bots that modify the status when given, then you could run them independently, or pipe them together in novel ways without recompiling – your choice.

Direct client use

If you want your application to be in control, you can simply import tweebot.TwitterClient and use its methods directly. This includes direct API access (via tweepy) to twitter, and few custom, convenience methods.